17850 BC
Early Kushites cultivate barley and einkorn wheat in the Nile Valley.
4100 BC
The first solar calendar is introduced in Kush.
3800 BC
A cosmology centered on the unity of the Upper and Lower Nile is etched on the walls of pyramids.
200 AD
Early Christianity thrives in ancient Kush.
700 AD
Prophet Mohammad motivates inhabitants of Khemet (Ancient Egypt) and Kush to raise a religious reformation.
1340 AD
The Turko-Egyptian incursions topple of the Kingdom of Maqara
1504 AD
Topple of the Kingdom of Aiwa by an alliance of Arab tribes and the Funj
1821-1885 AD
Turko-Egyptian Rule
1896
The Mahdiya
1899-1956 AD
Britain and Egypt establish joint colonial rule over the Sudan, divided into an urbanized, Islamic and Arab dominated North and a undeveloped South, under an eroded traditional authority, and with an English Christian missionary influence.
1955 – 1972 AD
The Anyanya Movement marked the beginning of a struggle that would span decades.
1972 – 1983 AD
The Addis Ababa Accord is brokered by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I, to bring a precarious peace to the Sudan for slightly over a decade.
1983 – 2000 AD
The popular struggle for liberation persists under the vision of a New Sudan that could potentially unite the people of modern day Kush, the Sudan.
1994 AD
Political transformation and restorative justice take root in South Africa as the African National Congress assumes the reigns of government. By the turn of the millennium, President Thabo Mbeki declared, “The African Renaissance is upon us!”
January 9, 2005 AD
The Comprehensive Peace Agreement is signed in Nyayo Stadium, Nairobi Kenya, officially ending Africa’s longest civil war.
July 6, 2005 AD
Dr. John Garang enters Khartoum and is welcomed by an estimated six million Sudanese from all walks of life. As First Vice President of the Sudan, he told the people of the Sudan, “You are now free. Spread your wings and fly!”
July 30, 2005 AD
Dr. John Garang dies in a helicopter crash in a place called New Kush, but his Vision Lives On!
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